university as a memorial to her, as she was one of the charter members and cherished great hopes for that department. As a teacher of voice culture she had trained hundreds of pupils all over the country and was affectionately known by them as their "music mother."

Among the subscription features are a dime endowment fund and a children's endowment fund, for which latter the children of Texas, as proposed, are to raise $25,000 by daily contributions of 1 cent a day each for five years.

The board of trustees comprises the following prominent gentlemen: Rev. W. H. Claggett, president; Rev. G. T. Storey, vice-president; Rev. S. J. McMurray, secretary; J. H. Silliman, treasurer; Rev. French McAfee, Dr. F. C. Stevenson, J. A. Thompson, R. P. Rhea, John M. McCoy, A. J. Brackenridge, cashier of First National Bank, Austin, and George T. Reynolds, president First National Bank, Albany, Tex.

Of these, Messrs. Claggett, Brackenridge, Reynolds, McAfee, and Thompson are members of the Northern Church and the others of the Southern Church. President Claggett is devoting his entire time to the work and has been quite successful in procuring subscriptions. Among them Mr. S. S. Childs, of New York, subscribes $5,000, and has been elected one of the trustees. So far about one-third of the $100,000 required to be raised before a site for the university is selected has been subscribed, and the projectors of the enterprise are confident of success.

DANIEL BAKER COLLEGE.

This institution, which is located at Brownwood, and was named in honor of the great pioneer of the Presbyterian Church in Texas, who so zealously labored for the establishment of Austin College at Sherman, was opened to students in 1889. The founder was Rev. B. T. McClelland. The principal donors were M. J. Coggin and S. R. Coggin, who jointly donated the ground and most of the money for the college buildings. Brooke Smith and Harry Ford also donated money for it. J. C. Weakly contributed work and material, and a large number of Brownwood citizens contributed according to their means to the success of the enterprise. The main building cost $30,000, the boarding hall $3,800, and the grounds, buildings, apparatus, furniture, library cabinet, etc., are estimated to be worth $45,000. Dr. McClelland, its first and only president, still occupies that position and has made the school popular and successful.

STUART SEMINARY.

This institution was established in 1853, at Gay Hill, Washington County, Tex., by the Rev. J. W. Miller, D. D., who was ably and

faithfully assisted by Mrs. R. K. Red. The institution was then known as Live Oak Seminary. In 1876 the school was moved to Austin, where a handsome stone building was erected, and the institution continued to prosper under the management of Mrs. Red, until her death in 1886. From 1886 to 1888 the school was continued with Miss Lel Red as principal. In 1888 Rev. J. M. Purcell was elected president of the institution. In 1893 another large three-story brick building was erected in addition to other improvements.

The founders of this school devoted their lives to the enterprise. The education of woman was with them a labor of love, and the institution is a monument of usefulness in intelligence, refinement, and culture springing from the grateful hearts of the young women who have graced its halls and year by year have gone forth from its academic walks into the practical activities of life among the masses of the people of Texas.

The property of the school is valued at $20,000.

AUSTIN SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY.

This school was an individual enterprise of Rev. Dr. R. K. Smoot, pastor of the Southern Presbyterian Church at Austin. It was put into operation by him about twenty years ago, and continued till 1895, when its work was suspended temporarily on account of Dr. Smoot's bad health, which has since been restored. Rev. Dr. R. L. Dabney, while a professor of the University of Texas, assisted some years in the work. Dr. Smoot's object in having the school at Austin was to afford the students the advantages of academic instruction in the university, while pursuing their theological course. It has a library of about 3,000 volumes, and property of some $12,000 in value in possession, and some $30,000 in value in grounds and buildings in contemplation.

TRINITY UNIVERSITY.

Soon after the close of the war between the States the felt need of an educational institution of high order began to move the members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Texas. The church in this State was then organized into three synods, known as the Texas, the Brazos, and the Colorado. These were moved in 1866, at their fall annual meeting, to appoint a joint committee to consider the question of immediately establishing such an institution. A little over a year elapsed before the committee saw its way clear to take active steps in the matter.

In December, 1867, therefore, the committee, composed of members from each of the synods, held its first meeting in Dallas, Tex. A report was made to the synods to the effect that the way seemed open

and the proposition a practical one for the establishment of the desired school. It was recommended that bids for the location be opened, and that no place be considered offering a bonus of less than $25,000. The report was concurred in by each synod and the recommendation adopted, and another joint committee was appointed to select the location and to take the necessary steps for starting the institution into active operation.

Four places-Dallas, Waxahachie, Round Rock, and Tehuacanaeach having raised the prescribed bonus, solicited the location. The committee visited each place and faithfully considered its respective advantages, deciding at length upon Tehuacana, Limestone County. This meeting of the committee at which final action was taken fixing the location was held at Waco April 20, 1869. As it was in mind to lay a broad foundation and that the institution should in the end be a university, the committee unanimously decided upon "Trinity University" as the name of the institution.

The committee reported its action to the synods, with the recommendation that each synod appoint three trustees-Texas Synod the first three, Brazos the second, and Colorado the third, making a board of nine trustees for the institution. Vacancies occurring from time to time were to be filled by the respective synods in the same order. It was recommended also that the synods raise an annual sum of $4,000 for five years to aid in employing professors, after which it was hoped that the tuition fees and the interest on accumulated endowment would be sufficient to run the school. The report of the committee was concurred in, and the recommendations were adopted. A building was improvised, a faculty selected, and the institution began operations in September, 1869.

The first board of trustees consisted of the following gentlemen, all members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church: James M. Love, D. M. Prendergast, Isaac H. Roberts, J. H. Bell, Dr. J. S. Wills, H. A. Boyd, D. R. Oliphant, S. B. Campbell, and M. M. Burgess. The Rev. Dr. T. B. Wilson was first elected as president of the university, but before the opening of the first session, he finding it necessary to decline to act, the Rev. W. E. Beeson, D. D., was elected president and professor of mental and moral sciences. Rev. W. P. Gillespie, A. M., was appointed professor of ancient languages and literature. S. Doak Lowry, A. M., Mrs. M. Kate Gillespie, and Mrs. M. E. Beeson were appointed assistant teachers.

The institution was coeducational from the start. The departments of literature and music alone were represented the first year. At the beginning of the second year, 1870-71, a commercial department was added and the corps of instructors increased by the election of Prof. D. A. Quaite to the chair of rhetoric and belles-lettres; William Hud

son, A. B., professor of penmanship, bookkeeping, and commercial law; Mrs. E. C. Hamilton, teacher of French and calisthenics; Mrs. M. D. Cocke and Mrs. M. C. Cole, assistants in various departments. Thus the institution started off as a good college, affording for the times perhaps about as good facilities for the education of young men and women as could be found in the State. From time to time additional departments were incorporated, and those in operation strengthened by securing additional teaching force, procuring apparatus and establishing libraries, until first-class college work was done. The institution as it increased in endowment and strengthened in other respects took on also some university phases in the establishment of a law school and a theological department, the latter being still maintained; but emphasis has been put upon maintaining a thorough collegiate course, and, with the exception of technical work in theology and some graduate literary work, the name "university" is still a misnomer, and the name Trinity College would better express the character of the institution.

The present main building of the university was begun in 1872, and the buildings when finally completed in the year 1892 presented a magnificent structure of 27 rooms. The walls are of a species of yellow limestone, found in great abundance on Tehuacana Hills in the immediate neighborhood of the university. The rooms of the building are large, well-ventilated, and so arranged as to be flooded with light and even sunshine.

A small dormitory called Divinity Hall, affording rooms for about 20 divinity students, is the only other building now completed belonging to the university. Other buildings, two for dormitories (one for boys and one for girls), one for library purposes, and another for the conservatory of music, have been planned. The present buildings and grounds cost about $75,000, but the present estimated value of the property is much higher on account of the general appreciation of property in the State.

In 1880 the trustees reported the institution as having $21,501 of endowment. This was exclusive of the $25,000 bonus, the latter sum having chiefly gone into the building and grounds. Only a small part of the endowment was then productive, viz, $2,146. The endowment consisted chiefly in lands, estimated at a very low price; a tract of 4,360 acres being estimated at $8,720, or $2 per acre. In 1890 the total amount of endowment had increased to about $75,000, of which $29,410.25 was productive. The nonproductive still being in the form of real estate may, in the end, yield a much larger sum than the price at which it has all along been estimated, since the estimate is very low and the lands somewhat enhanced in value.

The safe conduct of the university through financial crises, the preservation of its commercial good name, and the gradual increase of its